Brief to Cayenne

For this one I am doing the brief and the flight at the same time to get you, the reader in the mood

For this leg we are flying off shore.

This one the thing to do on take-off since w head some heavy shower to our left over Macapa.

The Brazilian approved all our request for deviation and gene help one of us to stay clear of the weather.

It is a short flight, only 1:30 mn for the Mustang. 

During the flight we start to listen to the ATIS.

The ATIS is an hourly report of the weather condition at the airport where we are going and usually you can less these about 200 nm out...we did but the now we had was 50 mn old...and was giving us a dream of weather, visibility light wind no rain and no cloud....perfect....but lets get the latest one since we are seeing clouds there.

It came at 10 mn past the hour and we got it while we were on the approach , the good weather was gone, the weather radar was on and this was going to be a very wet approach. I made sure all was secure in the plane...but lucky for us no bumps..

This is the arrival in Cayenne......looks like we are going to land at Atlanta or Kennedy airport . 

Leave it to the french to confirm their Motto: Why make it simple if you can make it complicated...they must have more traffic than Orly and De Gaulle in Paris combined.

In any case all of this is in the box and we have the ILS programmed too....by the way we have 3 ils for the same runway to choose from....why not...

After landing we had the visit of a very nice Custom agent, we have him our paperwork and all went very well. A nice man.

we transfer to the hotel, but we had to wait for taxis, even with the daily departure for the Air France Airbus 340, there were no taxi to be found....

Here is the video of the approach